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3rd generation

appeared out of nowhere to describe mobile ‘phones with serious data capabilities. Not a term used for prior or subsequent generations – possibly because some telecoms providers were embarrassed at the high prices they paid for spectrum rights.

24-7

twentyfourseven is not a football score but a modish way of saying constantly.

42

According to Douglas Adams, this is the ultimate answer to Life, The Universe and Everything – derived by the computer Deep Thought after 7 and a half million years. But the computer put a caveat on the answer: “I think the problem, to be quite honest with you is that you’ve never actually known what the question was.” Much of our iT still shares this problem.

666

This easy to remember number was the internal telephone extension number for the IT Help Desk at R.L. Polk (Europe) absolutely true.